If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

My cinema - the '50s, '60s - is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity